 Wertheimer is currently the President and CEO of Democracy 21, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, which he founded in 1997.He was named as one of the 90 greatest Washington lawyers of the last 30 years by "Legal Times" (2008) and as one of Washington's top lobbyists by "The Hill", a Capitol Hill newspaper (2009, 2010 and 2011).Democracy 21 and Wertheimer played major roles in the enactment of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act in 2002 (BCRA), the Honest Leadership and Open Government Act in 2007 (HLOGA), the establishment of the Office of Congressional Ethics in 2008, and House passage of the DISCLOSE Act in 2010.